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Wildfire near Getentiri (Sep 26)

Ended · 150 hectares (371 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
150Hectares371Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 26, 2026.

Wildfire near Getentiri (Sep 26) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Getentiri (Sep 26) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

An active wildfire spanning 280 hectares, or 692 acres, continues to burn near Getentiri in Indonesia, having started on September 26, 2026. Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from the incident, while 17 separate heat detections over the past 48 hours trace the local extent of the active spread.

This blaze unfolds during the dry season, adding to a broader national toll that sees 5,206,540 hectares burned so far in 2026—marking a total that is 46% above the two-decade average for the country.

In context

This wildfire burned in Indonesia for 2 days. In total it burned about 150 ha (371 acres) — around 1.5 km².

Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.

The bigger picture in Indonesia

Across Indonesia, roughly 6,134,111 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 72% above the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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